Bibliograph

In search of the woman who sailed the world, Danielle Clode

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In search of the woman who sailed the world, Danielle Clode

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-495)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In search of the woman who sailed the world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Danielle Clode

Summary

When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man and sailed on the 1766 Bougainville voyage as the naturalist's assistant. For over two centuries, the story of who this young woman was, why she left her home to undertake such a perilous journey and what happened when she returned has been shrouded in uncertainty. Author Danielle Clode embarks on a journey to solve the mysteries surrounding Jeanne Barret. From archives, herbariums and museums to untouched forests and open oceans, Clode's mission takes her from France and Mauritius to the Pacific Islands and New Guinea to reveal the previously untold full story of Jeanne's life as well as the achievements and challenges of her famous voyage

Target audience

adult

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